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Since I live at New Westminster Quay, in what is referred to now as Greater Vancouver, it is somewhat annoying to hear the word "Quay" pronounced as "Kway". We are fairly close to the American boarder but there are Canadians who pronounce it this way also, possibly those who grew up on the vast expanse of land between the Atlantic and Pacific and who never used the word.
My American dictionary says it should be pronounced as [kee].
Buoy is pronounced either way, and often a variant between the two like "bowie".
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